[Pkg-osm-maint] Bug#622973: pu: package josm/0.0.svn3376-1+squeeze1

[David Paleino]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:32:42 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 11:55 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> > I'm writing to you to ask for a possible p-u upload for JOSM.
> > 
> > OpenStreetMap is pursuing a process to change the license of its data.
> > Tomorrow it will enter Phase III, i.e. a contributor has to explicitely
> > accept or decline the new license [0], otherwise he'll get a 403 error [1].
> 
> If this is phase 3, presumably this has been known about for a while?

The date wasn't known up to two days ago; when it was announced (see link [0]
in my mail).

> If so, it would have been nicer if the patch could have been included in
> the version which we shipped in Squeeze.  (I realise this was only just
> fixed upstream, looking at the links you provided; thanks for those).

Heh :)
It's really an easy patch, but the problem really is that it was announced
suddenly, and with little pre-notice.

> > The suggested fix [2] was to improve the error message, including the
> > response body. Upstream did this [3], and released a new snapshot (4021,
> > currently in sid).
> 
> Assuming the resulting package has been tested in a Squeeze environment,
> please feel free to upload including (just) that patch.

Thanks,
David

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